Archive for Web Tips for Boomers

Advertising on MySpace

Both MySpace and Facebook have beefed up their offerings for advertisers. Today, we’ll talk a little about M/S because it has the more robust interface.

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Social Networking – the Big Three for Business

There are thousands of social portals on the internet, from massively mainstream to fantastically fringe. But lately, three social networks have emerged as must-haves for business people in a Web 2.0 world.

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Great Blogging for Real Estate

Most of the time, business people over 30 (Digital Immigrants) struggle with blogging. The don’t really understand how it works or the utility. But here’s an example from a guy who gets it and illustrates the two simple rules of business blogging.

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The Best Web 2.0 for Business Bookmarks

We’re always finding new sites that inform or inspire us. Now it’s time to share.

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What is Web 2.0?

“We need to make your site more Web 2.0,” I say. I’m always met with a blank look. That why I’ve posted some example links on del.icio.us.

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Blogging & Bandwidth Theft

Let’s say you find a great image on the internet and want to use it in your blog. Which is the correct technique: Use hotlink so your blog grabs the image from another site Download the image to your own computer or server If you said #1, go sit in the corner and wear the [...]

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Dynamic Websites and Google

Our colleague Gary recently pointed out another reason why dynamic websites perform better in search than static websites.

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Web 2.0 for Business

David Pogue, Circuits columnist for the New York Times, opines in his most recent post about the predominance of User Generated Content (UGC) in Web 2.0 applications. Mr. Pogue envisions

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Voting Machines and the Online Copywriter

Memo to election officials across the US: Please let online copywriters and designers create a simple to use, friction-free electronic ballot. We got to thinking about this because, once again, Florida is in the news for bungling an election.

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Don’t click here – avoid verbs? (Part 2)

This is a follow-up to our earlier post about using verbs for links on websites. Thanks to everyone for their comments. The consensus seems to be that

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